It looks like the K in Klout stands for Ka-Ching. If you’ve been active on Facebook or Twitter in the last several years — or even in just the last few weeks — you may have heard of Klout, the San Francisco-based technology company of self-proclaimed “data nerds” who assign a score to your activity across [...]

With Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare now woven into the fabric of our daily lives, it’s no wonder that a handful of online tools have emerged to make holiday travel planning fun and efficient: JetZet, Dopplr, TripIt and GlobeTrooper, to name a few. The strength of these services is their ability to coordinate your itinerary, in [...]